~Octopussy~ ⋅ 42 ⋅
Just an American living Bangkok and writing about all the inappropriate things that I somehow get roped into joining... I've been writing in blogs since 1999, so I'm fairly inconsistent. Sometimes I write a lot, sometimes I have nothing to say for months at a time, but I'm never gone, so just be patient and something new will come around.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time
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Nothing More in The Song Remembers When
I used to post so many music entries, but I’ve pretty much stopped listening to music entirely. I think it’s actually something I saw coming. I remember growing up, my grandmother never listened ...
As I was reading Charlize Theron’s comments about aging and getting older, I had a sudden realization about my friendship with Bane. Most of it came to light after reading an entry of mine from 2...
I was cleaning out my computer and I found all my back entries dating back to 2003 up until shortly before I started here. I spent the last few days going back and reading entries at random, and ...
Dream Some in Things That I'm Grateful For
My former professor, a great friend and mentor, sent me a message a few mornings ago. She told me that she had had a dream about me. I must be honest, I don’t receive messages like that very ofte...
Richard does nothing but send me 10+ Instagram Reels videos a day. It drives me absolutely nuts. I mean, I adore him (I’m glad we’re not close in proximity any longer because we’ve definitely div...
I was out with Bane the other night. I’d somehow gotten tricked into going out when I really didn’t want to. He had a friend visiting from Bali (I’m still not completely sure how they knew each o...
I am finally back at work. We had a six day weekend… that’s right. Read that again. I was off from Friday to Wednesday. I know for some of you that is a dream come true, however I felt like I was...
It’s been such a weird month. I looked around at everything happening and thought to myself, something has to be in retrograde like Mercury or Venus or the 5th House or whatever this stuff means…...
I just finished a corporate gig teaching English at an import company here in Bangkok. I’m sitting at this incredibly fancy restaurant, having an overpriced drink and just wondering about things....
Frankie invited me to his show a few weeks ago. Usually I try to stay out of the ballroom scene here because I feel it really isn’t my scene, but Frankie was going to DJ for the first time, so I ...
I was listening to the one podcast I listen to (Kathleen Madigan does one where she just randomly talks about things) and I happened to hear that one of the old businesses I worked for went under...
Move On by George Michael in The Song Remembers When
As existential crisis after existential crisis was piling up during the the early part of the year, I randomly found this song and it became a kind of a mantra to get through the haze. I even fel...
Well, I am moving again. I wasn’t really looking to move until the last couple of months. Since Cameron’s visit, my electricity bill has skyrocketed to the point where it’s not a little over half...
Daggers in Things That I'm Grateful For
I wouldn’t say I’m impatient, but people think I’m very impulsive. This is of course far from the truth, it’s just that my patience is invisible to most people. I wait for important things, the t...
I was out with Bane the other night when all of the sudden Good came over and started flirting with me. It was totally strange. Good was the guy who broke my heart almost a year ago on the day my...
While cleaning up my hard drive to prepare for the new school year, which starts in 10 days (yikes!), I found the downloaded copy of my blog from 20 years ago. I was reading it and I can see in-b...
I'm Always Touched By Your Presence, Dear in Things That I'm Grateful For
I’m not sick anymore, which is good because I’m going on vacation this weekend. I’m going to a small little beach resort on the coast. I reasoned that I needed a vacation from my vacation due to ...
I’m not sure if it’s the arrogance or something else, but by day 3 of my little brother’s visit, I was ready for him to leave… and we still had 2 weeks left to go. It’s not as if there was anythi...
When I was trying to think of a title for the last entry, this song suddenly came on and I stopped what I was writing, jumped up and started strutting around the office. My coworkers thought I wa...
Prove You Wrong in Things That I'm Grateful For
It was Ark’s birthday a few days ago. For those of you who don’t remember, Ark and I were hooking up until he randomly got a boyfriend and forgot to tell me about it and it kind of broke my heart...
I’ve often heard it said that it’s more difficult to make friends when you’re older than when you’re a youngster. Supposedly it has to do with the fact that we’ve learned in our later years how d...
I spent most of the beginning of the month asleep with acute food poisoning (aka salmonella). That has to be one of the worst illnesses I’ve ever had in my life. It has taken me weeks just to get...
Honestly, New Year was a trainwreck so let’s just jump right beyond that. A few weeks ago, I finally went on the Pride Cruise that goes all around Bangkok. It was fun and extremely random. I made...
Due to a legal document I signed, I cannot discuss what happened in the Red Room, except to say that it definitely met all my expectations and I have not only been invited back but asked to parti...
I recently found out that part of the reason why I’ve had so many health problems recently is because I’ve drinking coffee that I’m allergic to. It’s so nice to realize that my seizures are a res...
